BBM Magazine Issue-Sayı: 44 May/June - Mayıs/Haziran 2021

38 COVER STORY • KAPAK DOSYASI BBM / MAYIS - HAZİRAN 2021 • MAY - JUNE 2021 shorten this process, we are living in a different world order now. We are sustaining a distant and cautious life- style in which people are keeping away from each other. With the pandemic, the increase in demand for packaged products caused bread to be sold in packages, a variety in packaged products, and an increase in demand for small-weight products. Besides, people now prefer a healthy lifestyle more. With Covid-19, interest in healthy food consumption has increased along with the desire to live in healthy environments. Of course, these develop- ments have also been reflected in our industry. Our com- pany, which has about half a century of experience, has been producing solutions for healthy bread production since the first day. In the projects we offer, we not only procure bakery technologies to our customers but also make the production processes necessary to produce healthy products that comply with international norms. After the pandemic, municipalities' investments in public bread facilities accelerated. While some in- crease their production capacity, some other munici- palities are establishing new facilities. Could you tell us about your work in this field? Demands regarding both semi-automatic and fully au- tomatic Municipal bread production facilities come to our company. For which of your characteristics shall a municipal- ity to establish a new bread facility choose you? As Sarmaşık Makina, we provide the turnkey solution and consultancy of a facility ranging from flour storage to bread packaging. The main reasons for preference are the references that we have established so far and proved the project success, our after-sales support ca- pacity and, of course, our projects that offer the most up-to-date technology in line with the goals of the facility. WE ARE EXTENDING PRODUCTION PROCESSES In the Covid-19 process, the importance of industrial furnaces has increased even more. What kind of work do you conduct in this field? As Sarmaşık Makina, we have been building facilities that produce bread without human touch for many years. We have focused on expanding these projects with sour- dough production automation and frozen production processes. Especially when we look at the municipalities, we can say that the technology used by many in the pro- duction of bakery products is outdated. What kind of support do you provide in terms of capacity increase or renewal of technologies? Industrial municipal bread production facilities cannot demi ile ambalajlı ürünlere olan talep artışı beraberinde ekmeklerin de pakette satılmasına, paketlenen ürünler- de çeşitliliğe, ufak gramajlı ürünlerdeki talebin artmasına sebep oldu. Aynı zamanda artık insanlar sağlıklı yaşam biçimini daha çok tercih etmekte. Covid-19 ile birlikte sağlıklı ortamlarda yaşam isteği ile birlikte sağlıklı gıda tüketimine olan ilgi de arttı. Elbette bu yansımalar sektö- rümüze de yansıdı. Yaklaşık yarım asırlık tecrübeye sahip firmamız, ilk günden bugüne sağlıklı ekmek üretimi için çözümler üretmektedir. Sunduğumuz projelerde müşteri- lerimize sadece ekmekçilik teknolojileri sunmuyor, üretim süreçlerini uluslararası normlara uygun ve sağlıklı ürünler üretmek için gerekli hale getiriyoruz. Pandemiden sonra belediyelerin halk etmek tesisleri yatırımları hızlandı. Kimi üretim kapasitelerini arttırır- ken kimi belediyeler de yeni tesisler kuruyor. Bu alan- daki çalışmalarınızdan bahseder misiniz? Firmamıza da gerek yarı otomatik gerekse de tam oto- matik Belediye ekmek üretim tesisleri ile alakalı talepler gelmektedir. Genelde standart somun ekmek odaklı ge- len bu taleplere ilişkin projelerimizi sunarken tesislerin